Best Friends

Saturday morning Jack woke up early to use the bathroom so Eric just crawled into bed with him to go back to sleep. (They do this a lot and very rarely get back to sleep!) Well I guess they were in bed talking and Jack tells Eric "You're my best friend."

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

When they got up and Eric told me Jack turned to me and said "Mommy, you're my best friend too."

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!j

Busted!

We were totally busted wrapping Jack’s presents. He was supposed to be napping and we were wrapping Jack’s and Gracie’s Christmas presents when all of a sudden he just appears in the living room announcing that he was awake. He saw everything!!! He asked if the presents were for him and we said no, that Santa was bringing his presents but there were still some things that weren’t wrapped and we went over to start playing with them!!! I quick snatched them up and told him that they weren’t ours.

Busted!!!!!

Sleep. Glorious Sleep!

I had forgotten how wonderful it was... to be able to sleep the whole night through. I can't really complain too much about Grace because overall she's been a great sleeper. Since about 2 months old she was averaging only one wakeup a night to eat. Not bad! But lately she was getting progressively worse! What happened? Was she sick? Was she teething? Was she hungry? Nope. Nope. And Nope. She just didn't want to be swaddled anymore! I was so scared not to swaddle her because I was afraid of her waking herself up all night with her hands in her face but after talking to Miss Linda (daycare) yesterday I decided to bite the bullet. Miss Linda hasn't been swaddling her for a little while now. Turns out that's just what Grace wanted. I zipper her up in a sleep sack for warmth since she wouldn't have the swaddling and nursed her to sleep. You'll never guess what happened. Never. Ok, well maybe you will. She slept ALL night! 10 1/2 hours to be precise. And that's with me waking her this morning to get her ready for daycare.

Well, I guess I lied, I did hear her wake a couple times but she put herself back to sleep. That's my good girl! But I mean she didn't even want to eat last night! Really, I can't describe to you the shear pleasure of staying in my own bed all night and not falling asleep in that damned rocking chair and waking up 2 hours later with my head bent forward and not being able to move my neck. Nope, sure didn't miss that last night.

But there is one downside to all of this. I discovered how it is that she soothes herself. She has found her thumb. Yup, she had it plopped right in her mouth this morning. I had orthodontic bills flash before my eyes. But hey, I'm getting sleep before I start paying all those bills, right?

Who is this cat at daycare?

Just like any other day I went to daycare after work to pick up my children. I didn't find Jack and Grace, though. I found Grace and a kitty. I had called the Kitty by Jack's name only to be corrected with "No, I'm a kitty." "Jack, it's time to put your coat on." "No, I'm a kitty." "Ok kitty, it's time to put your coat on." So he crawled over to me. He meowed a few times while we were there too.

It was once we got to the car that the kitty really came out of his shell.

"Meow. Meow. Meow. MEOW. meow. Meoooow. Meow. MEOW MEOW MEOW. meowmeowmeowmeowmeow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. MEOW. meow. Meoooow. Meow. MEOW MEOW MEOW. meowmeowmeowmeowmeow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. MEOW. meow. Meoooow. Meow. MEOW MEOW MEOW. meowmeowmeowmeowmeow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. MEOW. meow. Meoooow. Meow. MEOW MEOW MEOW. meowmeowmeowmeowmeow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. MEOW. meow. Meoooow. Meow. MEOW MEOW MEOW. meowmeowmeowmeowmeow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. MEOW. meow. Meoooow. Meow. MEOW MEOW MEOW. meowmeowmeowmeowmeow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. MEOW. meow. Meoooow. Meow. MEOW MEOW MEOW. meowmeowmeowmeowmeow. Meow. Meow. Meow."

That was the entire drive home.